Forty Dollars for $1.50 Worth of Lycopene? -Roger Mason

Lycopene was the The Big Hoax of 2003. In 2008 it is still a big hoax. This replaced coral calcium and colloidal minerals as The Big Hoax. First lycopene was The Prostate Miracle. Now lycopene is supposedly the Miracle of Miracles good for most everything. Breast cancer, arthritis, heart health and now osteoporosis. BALONEY folks! This stuff is useless.  
 
So, why is everyone pushing lycopene and all the supposed wonders? To take the money of the naive, foolish, and gullible of course. If lycopene had any value don't you think we'd sell it to you here at Young Again  Internet? Don't you think we'd offer you the best, strongest, and least expensive? It costs about $1.50 for 90 capsules of 10 mg lycopene. Life Extinction sells this to you for $40.00- AFTER you pay $75 for the "privilege" of joining their exclusive little club. Forty dollars for a buck and a half worth of tomato extract? Puritan's Pride will sell you 100 capsules of 10 mg for $9.18 on the other hand. It's money wasted no matter who you buy it from or how much you pay.  
 
We are the only ones in the world telling you lycopene is a fraud, a hoax, a deceit, and deception. We're the only natural supplement company in the world who refuses to promote this hoax. There are several articles in our library on this. 
 
Nearly every single "study" that has been published on lycopene has simply been a paid advertisement in a journal funded by and paid for by Lyco-Mato in Israel. This isn't science- it is advertising. If lycopene had any value scientists around the world would be using generic lycopene in double blind studies to prove its value. First of all, you only raise serum lycopene by eating tomatoes cooked in oil. That's right, you can drink gallons of tomato juice every day and not raise your blood lycopene one bit. Tomatoes are a Nightshade family vegetable full of toxic solanine  and tomatine and not fit for human consumption. Southern Italians are about the only people in the world who use tomatoes as a staple. For centuries tomatoes were considered a toxic ornamental plant not to be eaten by humans or animals. The toxic levels of solanine and tomatine are discussed in detail in my book Zen Macrobiotics for Americans.  
 
Recently one article said blood studies of lycopene prove that this is good for prostate disease. This was published in  Pure Appl. Chem. v. 74, 2002. If you actually read this report it turns out they measured plasma lycopene levels. However,  plasma does not carry lycopene. Only the blood serum absorbs the lycopene. The proper serum studies of tens of thousands of men prove beyond any doubt that blood serum lycopene levels are completely unrelated to prostate health in any way, shape or form. Please read the other articles on lycopene in the library. The Japan-Hawaii Cancer Center (Cancer Epidem. Biol. Prev.  v. 6, 1997) studied serum from 6,680 men and found it unrelated to prostate health. Ed Giovannucci has been the biggest supporter of lycopene, but even he admits (Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. v. 218, 1998), "However, it is premature to suggest that either tomatoes or lycopene is causally related to protection from prostate cancer or that the consumption of products rich in lycopene will have a beneficial effect for men suffering from established prostate cancer." The U. of NY in Buffalo (JNCI v. 88, 1996) said there was "no association" of lycopene with breast cancer. The famous Hutchison Cancer Center (JNCI v. 92, 2000) basically concluded lycopene isuseless when it comes to prostate health. At the National Cancer Intitute (Cancer Causes Controls v. 9, 1998) actually found women with the lowest breast cancer rates ate the least amount of tomatoes. The biggest of all studies from NIH and Johns Hopkins University (JNCI v.82,  1990) studied the serum of 25,802 men and found no relation whatsoever with lycopene levels. Ohio State University concluded in an extensive review ( Pure Appl. Chem. v. 74, 2002), "The consumption of lycopene supplements is not currently recommended for prostate cancer prevention or therapy".  
 
We could go on all day with such studies to prove the lycopene is a useless promotion for profit but you get the idea by now. We don't sell it and won't sell it. Lycopene is useless.